The range is abuzz with excitement as we collectively work to improve the club not only for members but also for the community.

Local firearms clubs and ranges are essential to the American way of life. As Americans, we take on the responsibility of owning firearms and operating them safely. Ranges like Spurwink Rod and Gun Club are essential to American culture as we provide a safe place for local residents to learn about firearms.

A lot of hard work has been done and much has been accomplished since we began range improvements three years ago.

It is our greatest hope that the new and updated Spurwink Rod and Gun Club will be a place of great pride for its current members, future members and neighbors as we all take comfort in an improved shooting facility.

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KennebunkportIndependent

I am a responsible gun owner, but I have never conflated gun ownership with being an American quality.

Mike Chaplin

I think having a place to practice with your firearm is an important part of a community because there are fewer and fewer places you can go without bothering someone. These facilities enable folks to actively enjoy the privileges of the 2nd Amendment and keep their skills at a point where they can defend their family and property if necessary.

tiresias75

Too bad that this is no longer a place where you can go without bothering someoe – just ask the neighbors….

Jimmy crackedcorn

Great letter. Rather than being serious about investing in making the gun range safe for the community and speak to that commitment in a letter to the editor, let’s try to pander to the easily swayed in the hopes of garnering pity and sympathy in what surely must be another attack on American values. This letter is an attack on logic and sound reason and the writer should be embarrassed.

John Mc Manamy

I loved that place and learned how to shoot at twelve. The NIMBYs are just part of the new American sensation,”I’m a victim”.

Imagine buying a house next to a shooting range and then complaining that it’s not my fault I was stupid.

Move out of the cape, you’d be better off across the bay in Yarmouth.

Jimmy crackedcorn

Imagine learning that the shooting range that you knew was there when you bought your house is actually not as safe as purported to be by the club. The club wouldn’t release previous safety inspections and kept saying trust us. It’s fine. Nobody has been hit in 60 years by one of our stray bullets. It’s unlikely. Well the community had enough of these lies and hired an independent NRA expert who very clearly disputed the clubs’s claims of shot containment in his long report.

Your solution is for everyone within 3 miles of the club needs to move to Yarmouth. You are a brilliant mind and deep thinker like the club leadership void of logic and sound reason.